First week is over...

It seems like ages since I have last blogged and let people know what is going on in the lovely city of Kenosha.

So school started on Tuesday and it has been a crazy few days, amazing things have been happening. Simply hearing each students testimony and back story has been pretty incredible.

Knowing that this is completely the right place to be has also been a major encouragement. I can't recall ever feeling this much peace about being in one place as I do here.

I have been feeling pretty sick the last couple of days though, not sure if I have picked up a virus; some sort of freshers flu or what but it has been a bit annoying to say the least.

The guys here are great, I didn't think we would bond as a group so quickly but we seem to have gelled well so that's a blessing.

In terms of things to do out here in Wisconsin, well there is the coffee shop by the lake which does a mighty rootbeer float and great coffee, there are the music stores (apologies to kelly and becky for what happened in said music store) and apparently there is a historical house (buily in 1915) which contains a tour about the history of barbed wire. This is a must!

It strikes me as something that both Felix and myself would enjoy greatly. Incidentally I am missing the football here and have been looking for updates on the scores. Arsenal are 1-0 down to Man City and in true Gunner's fashion it is an embarrasing own goal that has caused us to fall behind. This isn't happening on Football Manager, I am doing pretty well on FM.

I have seen some cheap effects pedals out here, temptation is nearly taking hold, for those of you who know what a Fulltone OCD is I can pick one up out here for around £70 which is pretty nuts. I also spent 1000 dollars on a mesa boogie rectoverb... not for me but for my friend Tom. It's ok he paid me back straight away though. The only trouble is I now want it because it is really nice and is a third of the cost we would pay for it in the UK. Everything else here seems similar to UK prices though.

More to follow on the course and what we are doing but at the moment I am still trying to process everything. God is doing some amazing work in people and the freedom we are experiencing out here is like nothing I have experienced before. Long may it continue.

Matt